A 17-year-old boy obsessively listened to the same two lines of a Beatles song before massacring his brother and parents on his father’s 51st birthday.
The boy, identified only as Riccardo, brutally killed his father, Fabio Chiarioni, his mother, Daniela Albano, 49, and his brother Lorenzo, 12, with a 20cm kitchen knife in Paderno Dugnano, near Milan, Italy, on Sunday.
Riccardo chillingly told police he killed his family to “live more freely” after obsessively listening to the Beatles’ The Long and Winding Road in the days leading up to the murders, local media reported.
He said he heard the lines ‘Many times I’ve been alone / And many times I’ve cried’ on repeat.
During the shocking attack, the teenager first hit his sleeping brother and Lorenzo’s screams woke his parents, who ran to their bedroom.
The boy, identified only as Riccardo, brutally killed his father, Fabio Chiarioni, his mother Daniela Albano, 49, and his brother Lorenzo, 12, with a 20cm kitchen knife in Paderno Dugnano, near Milan, Italy, on Sunday.
Riccardo (bottom left) chillingly told police he killed his family to “live more freely” after obsessively listening to the Beatles’ The Long and Winding Road in the days leading up to the murders, local media reported.
Officers rushed to the family home after the teen called authorities and told them he had killed his father.
The worried father, unaware that his eldest son was the attacker, screamed for help, only to be killed by his own flesh and blood.
“I stabbed my father while he was screaming at me to get help,” the teenager confessed, according to Italian media outlet Il Difforme.
He added: “I thought one stab would be enough to kill, then I realised that wasn’t the case.”
The boy stabbed his father in the neck several times to kill him quickly because he said he did not want his family to “suffer.”
The boy also told investigators: “There’s no real reason why I killed them. I felt like a foreign body in my family. Oppressed. I thought that by killing them all I would be free of this discomfort.”
Riccardo also said that he thought about going to Ukraine to fight against Russia.
According to local reports, the young man had initially told authorities a fabricated story that he had witnessed his father killing his mother and brother, before taking a knife and stabbing his father.
The 17-year-old told investigators he walked into his brother’s bedroom on the second floor of the family home and found Chiarioni sitting in a chair with the knife beside him.
He told officers that his mother’s body was on the floor at his father’s feet, and that his brother was lying dead in his bed before he launched his attack on his father.
But the police were not convinced by the story as the boy had no signs of a struggle on his body and the truth came to light during a second interrogation.
The teenager told investigators he had felt ‘uncomfort’ within his family and that these emotions had erupted just hours after the family celebrated Chiarioni’s 51st birthday.
He also said he had been thinking about carrying out the killings “for a while,” according to reports. The Messenger.
Father Fabio Chiarioni, 51, was killed by his son a few hours after celebrating his 51st birthday
The teenager’s mother, Daniela Albano, 49, was found dead in her nightclothes in the bedroom of her younger son, who had also been killed.
The boy explained how at around 2am on Sunday, he grabbed a large kitchen knife and lunged at his little brother first, stabbing him with the knife at least ten times.
He then carried out his brutal attack on his parents, who were also in his brother’s room, but the younger brother was found to have the most stab wounds.
The teenager called authorities immediately after the savage killings and told Italian emergency services that he had stabbed his father to death.
The Sardinian Union The boy was reported to have told authorities: “I killed my dad, come here,” after the attack.
When officers arrived outside the family home, they found the 17-year-old lying on the pavement in his underwear with his bare back covered in blood.
He was reportedly still holding the blood-soaked knife in his hand until authorities arrived, where he dropped it to the ground.
Officers later found the parents and brother dead in their sleepwear in the brother’s bedroom.
Speaking to investigators during his confession, he said: “I realized a minute later. I understood that killing them would not free me.”
According to a report by AnsaThe boy has been arrested for his killing spree after being questioned throughout Sunday by investigators led by Milan’s juvenile prosecutor Sabrina Ditaranto.
Judicial sources said they still do not understand the motive for the triple homicide.
“We will have to wait a long time before explaining such an atrocious gesture,” they said.
Ditaranto said during a press conference on Sunday: ‘The boy understood that he had done something irreversible, he expressed his own discomfort, not related to the family.
“From a legal point of view, we do not have a technically valid reason. From a sociological and psychological point of view, investigations are obviously ongoing.”
Friends of the family and Paderno Dugnano Mayor Anna Varisco expressed shock at the news of the devastating murders.
“They were a normal, serene family, not followed by social services and described by everyone as a family without problems,” Varisco told the outlet.
Neighbors described the family as quiet, well-off and hard-working people, according to reports. The Messenger.
“They were a fantastic, happy family. It’s impossible, I don’t know what could have happened,” said the father of a classmate of the 17-year-old.
‘He went to school with my daughter, primary and secondary, we went on vacation together, I saw the father a month ago for the last time.
‘We had some good days together in the past.’